Island Trees School District administrator Elizabeth Roemer, was recently presented with The Long Island Family and Consumer Science (LIFACS) Professionals’ Ellen Swallow Richards Award. The award is given in memory of Richards, the first female student at MIT, and is presented annually to a LIFACS nonmember who had made an outstanding contribution to the field of Family and Consumer Science.
At the awards breakfast held at the Suffolk County Community College Culinary Arts & Hospitality Center in Riverhead on
March 20, Roemer was introduced by Samantha Bunster, Suzanne Alahverdian and Mirianthi Pericli, who explained they nominated her because of her dedication to the district and its students while moving from English teacher to department chair to her current role as Administrator for Educational Programs, Literacy and Staff Development.
“She has become the voice defending the soft skills that the FACS department provides students,” they said.
LIFACS supports teachers in the classroom and helps to keep the content area alive. Workshops and conferences are provided to support teachers with new ways to enhance and enrich real-life experiences for students, while teaching them how to reason, think critically and creatively and act responsibly toward others. It is the only professional association dedicated to teaching family and consumer science to students from multiple practice settings and content areas.
—Nancy Lenz
